This Information Competence
unit is an integral part of both COMS 4 and COMS 5 classes
and is also required by some other professors to ensure their students
have learned the information skills necessary to understand and
complete research projects for their classes. Your
participation and scores will be included as part of your
course grade.

This assignment requires you to complete a brief survey and pre-test in
WebCT. If you score 80% or more on the pre-test you will have
demonstrated your information competence and that score will be
reported to your instructor.

If you get less than 80% you must go
through
the tutorials and exercises for each of the Information
Competencies and then take a post-test. You may work on
the tutorial at your convenience. The entire assignment will
take you several hours. When you have satisfactorily
completed this tutorial your record will
reflect that you have successfully demonstrated the
following six Information Competencies expected of all CSUS
students prior to graduation.

The campus labs all are configured
properly for WebCT but if you plan to do the assignment from off campus
you must
make sure the browser you are using is configured properly. The
recommended Browsers compatible with WebCT 3.8 are:

If you fail to prepare
your browser settings for WebCT, WebCT will not grade your
tests and quizzes.
You can ignore the plug-in instructions, but you must
Enable
Java and
Set Cache to Always
Reload a Page.
Click this link to go to the Browser
Tune Up page and
follow the instructions for the browser you are currently
using. It will help you determine if you need to upgrade
your browser for WebCT.

If you have
questions about the assignment, please contact your
instructor
or Linda J. Goff, Library Instruction Librarian,
ljgoff@csus.edu.
Be sure to identify yourself, your class and section in the
message.